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Animator Chad Essley writes, "The new MC Frontalot (previously) nerdcore video is out for the 4th of July! Celebrate our nations hostility toward the British crown by listening to Front rap about internet arguments over Free Software!"

We must pause to thank a free software company, The OpenNMS Group, for commissioning this piece and making it available to the world. Show them some love.

The animated video is pretty great. Cameos include: Lawrence Lessig (who is name-dropped in the lyric), Snowden and Assange (who are not), our ghoulish current prez, some poor sap forced at gunpoint to recite the songs lyric on North Korean television, and a bird who looks borderline-infringingly similar to Drinky Crow! There are probably dozens of other little details and Easter Eggs in there, which you should definitely catalog while watching the clip over and over again.

Ever wanted to remix a Frontalot song? Well, in further thematic synergy, Freedom Feuds source tracks are now available under a Creative Commons license for your artistic experimentation and/or Hawt Jam Cookery. Grab the kit here. Free MP3/AAC/FLAC versions of the mastered song are available too.

Fronts gonna see you at DEF-CON in Vegas this month. Then there are a couple more PAXes this year, on opposite sides of the earth. Front will rap at both of those. Will he figure out how to get on the road with Schaffer, Ran, and Lars in the fall? Stay tuned

Freedom Feud [MC Frontalot]

This document has it all: a neat quantization of the qualitative; a tale told in a single bureaucratic leaf that implies a whole hidden universe of night-scurrying morlocks who tend the magic under the harsh glare of floodlights on the third shift; a fine sheet slid in the nearly imperceptible crack between consensus hallucination and []

From 1993 to 2001, this Serbian middle-school biology textbook sported a cutout of a still from Raising Arizona in which Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter cradle their stolen baby.

Noah Smith (previously) writes in Bloomberg (!) about the fleecing of the Gen-X and Boomer middle class a class that is growing continuously smaller and poorer, thanks to financial deregulation, tax cuts and a lax attitude toward consumer protection and antitrust.

Entertaining bold changes in your career can feel like an abandonment of what youve worked for thus far, but this fallacious mindset can cost you a lot more in the long run than the time spent at your current gig. Change is constant, and building new skills outside of your typical wheelhouse will do much []

Immersive 3D sound is usually only possible with an array of surround-sound speakers, or by using headphones with Binaural audio content. And since most readily-available media is mastered for generic stereo, your Dolby 5.1 setup wont automagically add an extra dimension to your listening experience. But you can still simulate a rich audio environment with []

If big-game bow hunting sounds a little too intense for your delicate sensibilities, or you want to start building your kids archery proficiency early, this Real Action Crossbow Set is a fairly convincing replica of the real thing.The toy bow fires suction-cup tipped bolts up to 20 feet, so you can work on your marksmanship []

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Audient has teamed up with some of the industrys leading innovators to offer a comprehensive selection of free creative software for all Audient customers.

A comprehensive selection of free creative software from the likes of Eventide, Steinberg, LANDR and Producertech will be on offer for all Audient customers through its the new creative hub, ARC, which has launched today.

As a reward for simply registering a product on the Audient website, new and existing customers are given access to a range of software designed to provide a solution for recording, mixing, mastering and even education all free of charge.

The concept behind ARC is not only to add value for our customers, but also to provide high-end software products that producers or musicians of any ability can benefit from on a creative level, said marketing manager Andy Allen. Article continues below

As soon as you have registered your product, you can access ARC and download any - or all - of these amazing offers.

As part of the package, Audient offers two free Eventide plugins: UltraChannel and UltraReverb (worth 350). Between them, these plugins can provide EQ, compression, delay, gates, reverb and more.

Also available are Steinbergs Cubase LE and Cubasis LE2 (for iOS), which turn a Mac, PC or iPad into a compact Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), offering audio recording, editing, MIDI sequencing and mixing tools for musicians, producers and songwriters.

In addition, mastering innovators LANDR are offering 8 free 16-bit WAVs and 2 free 24-bit WAV master credits at no cost to Audient users, whilst the two Producertech.com courses selected by Audient will give unique insights into compression and vocal production, as well as a 20 voucher to put towards further courses.

We have provided over 500 in creative software for our customers and all they have to do is register their product now and enjoy. If youre already a user of a current Audient product - it doesnt matter if youve got an iD4 or a Heritage console - grab your serial number and click through on the Audient website, said Allen.

For more information about Audients ARC Creative Hub visit https://audient.com/arc/

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After doing an astrophotography shoot and zooming in on the stars, and you may find digital noise spoiling the scene. Removal in Lightroom can result in less color in the cosmos, but using a piece of software called Starry Landscape Stacker software canmake the final output much better.

In this 23-minute video tutorial byLonely Speck, Starry Landscape Stacker is put to the test.

By taking multiple exposures of the night sky, it is possible for the software to track the stars (accounting for the rotation of the Earth) and determine what is and isnt digital noise.This makesfor much cleaner and higher quality star shots after removal.

The software will select every star it can find, creating a mask of them. Its possible to adjust thismask by clicking on any stars that have been missed (or hot pixels that have beenmisinterpreted).

Itll also select the entire area of sky. You can, once more, fine-tune this to ensure the foreground and sky are entirely separated.

Then just click to continue, andStarry Landscape Stacker will output a TIFF file of glorious stars, without drastically reducednoise. You can see a comparison here the softwares output is on the left, compared with one of the original frames on the right:

Starry Landscape Stacker is available for macOS only and costs $35.

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EzPaycheck 2017 payroll software has released the an update for after fact payroll processing. Download and test drive 2017 version at no risk or obligation at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/index.asp.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 04, 2017

Halfpricesoft.com has updated ezPaycheck2017 payroll software for customers switching to the product, mid year. After fact payroll that has been processed by accountants who record information done by their clients, payroll processed by an outside source, or paychecks processed using another software is now easily handled by ezPaycheck.

"Businesses who start using ezPaycheck 2017 payroll software can add after fact payroll easily," said Dr. Ge, the founder of halfpricesoft.com.

The new edition can also support multiple accounts and up to 500 employees with no extra charge. Business owners can relax in knowing that the software will enable them to process paychecks easily when they hire more employees or grow their businesses in a different state.

Small businesses and nonprofits will appreciate the unique features in the latest release of ezPaycheck payroll software:

Customers seeking a way to simplify payroll processing with more accuracy can go online to http://www.halfpricesoft.com/index.asp and download the payroll software. The download includes the full version of the paycheck software along with a sample database. The sample database allows new customers to try all of ezPaycheck's exciting features, including the intuitive graphical interface, without wasting time entering data.

Halfpricesoft.com invites new customers to start the no obligation 30-day test drive today at: http://www.halfpricesoft.com/index.asp.

About Halfpricesoft.com Founded in 2003, Halfpricesoft.com has established itself as a leader in meeting and exceeding the software requirements of small businesses around the world. Offering payroll software, employee attendance tracking software, check writing/printing software, W2 software, 1099 software and ezACH deposit software. It continues to grow in the philosophy that small business owners deserve affordable, user friendly, and totally risk-free software.

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We look at the best antivirus apps available right now: what is the best security app for mobile? Read on to find out.

By Christopher Minasians | 03 Jul 2017

Like Windows before it, the 'open' and widely popular Android system from Google has a weak security system that makes it prone to infection from dangerous malware (more than it affects iOS users). We reveal the best antivirus apps for both Android and iOS.

If you're looking for antivirus for your PC, visit best antivirus 2017.

The idea of installing security software on a smartphone might seem like overkill, but there are plenty of good reasons to consider doing so.

Anyone fraudsters included can submit apps to the Google Play Store without pre-approval, and apps can also be downloaded and installed from a wide range of other sources.

That means Android users face a greater element of risk than those with iPhones or Windows Phone handsets, who can only install apps that have been properly pre-vetted for safety.

Nevertheless, every user is at potential risk from malware and physing emails and ads - so no matter the platform you're on, it's good to have a mobile antivirus program installed.

The more open nature of the Android operating system makes it more susceptible to the kind of malware that we've grown accustomed to dealing with on Windows PCs. Although the scale of the Android malware problem isn't yet as bad as it is on Windows PCs, it remains a threat all the same.

The security software test lab Av-Test, has millions of different pieces of Android malware in itsdatabase malware that is typically used to steal your valuable personal data from your phone without your knowledge.

Anti-theft

Yet, even if you're careful about what apps you install or which websites you visit, there are other strong motives for installing a security suite. Such security apps routinely include anti-theft features, for example.

Contrary to the name, they won't prevent theft but they may allow you to lock or wipe the data from your stolen handset. Some even include features that allow you to take photos or audio recordings of the thieves.

If you've merely left the phone lying in a bar or restaurant, the anti-theft features can be used to locate your handset, and display a message on the lost phone's screen, providing instructions on how to contact you, in order to return the handset.

Call blocking

Another useful feature commonly found in security suites is call blocking. If your mobile is constantly plagued by nuisance calls or spam texts, you might be able to block the callers so that they don't interrupt your day. But this won't work when you're being plagued by pre-recorded calls hawking PPI refunds and the like, when the caller number is Unknown or Withheld.

Some apps include schedulers in their call-blocking facilities, so you can divert all calls from the office to voicemail at evenings and weekends, for example.

App managers

Some suites also include app managers that allow you to password protect access to the web browser invaluable for parents who routinely hand their phone over to children to play games and worry that they might stumble into something they shouldn't, or run up horrendous bills by purchasing apps.

Backup facilities

Less useful are the backup facilities found in many of these suites. Some merely back up contacts, which certainappsalready support the feature when you sign in with your Google or Apple account, while others only offer a tiny amount of space to store your photos and files.

Price: 9.99

Available with a 14 day free trial, BitDefender Mobile Security scored a full 100 percent in both real-time malware and discovery of malware on Android platforms during AV-Tests May 2017 test.

It has anti-theft features, works with wearable devices, gives you web security alongside a privacy advisor and most importantly has a very effective malware scanner.

However, you won't be able to block calls, backup data or have any parental controls.

BitDefender is our pick of the best Windows antivirus and best Mac antivirus.

Price: Free trial from the Play Store

The app has a grace period of ten days, where you will be able to trial the full functionalities before purchasing it.

AhnLab V3 is well received and offers anti-malware, call blocking, privacy features (such as a history cleaner for your browser), a speed booster (to increase the responsiveness of your phone), a way of hiding photos from your gallery and offers anti-theft features.

In Av-Test's benchmarks, the app scores a solid 100 percent score 99.8 in 'detection of the latest Android malware in real-time' and 'detection of the latest Android malware discovered in the last 4 weeks'.

AhnLab V3 has a small footprint on your device, while providing the necessary security.

However, it doesn't feature a backup of personal data, parental controls nor a message filter for spam messages.

Price: Free version available

Third in our overall antivirus charts is Kaspersky, which offers great mobile antivirus too. It scored just below 100 percent in AV-Test, at 99.8%.

It offers a huge range of features in addition to the antivirus itself, including has find my phone, anti-theft, anti-phishing, call blocker and a web filter too.

A free version is available with limited features, and the premium version is 9.99 for the whole package.

Price: 24.99

The app comes with a free 30 day trial period. After the trial has expired you will still be protected, but won't benefit from its premium features.

The app scores a full 100 percent in both real-time malware and discovery in its Av-Test benchmarks.

It features a call blocker, safe browsing and a means of backing up personal data. However, it doesn't have parental controls or a message filter.

Price: Free version available

Another Android antivirus that very nearly scored top marks in AV-Test's benchmarks is McAfee, which doesn't quite have as big a range of features as Kaspersky, but does offer solid antivirus and anti-theft protection.

There's also a battery optimiser built in to help you boost the performance of your phone, and there's support for Android Wear.

There are also privacy settings that can be tailored on an app-by-app basis.

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